Charlotte Street Foundation

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of three Kansas City artists to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each in 2009. Selected by a panel of local and national curators from a pool of 34 nominated artists, the recipients are Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren and Andrzej Zielinski.

Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 68 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, with a total of $422,500 in unrestricted case grants distributed directly to the artists over twelve years.  An exhibition of the work of the 2009 Charlotte Street Awards recipients will presented at the H & R Block Artspace in fall, 2009.

Read full press release, including more about this year’s Fellows and the selection process. See Kansas City Star feature about 2009 Awards Fellows. Listen to Laura Spencer’s feature and interviews with awarded artists on KCUR-FM.

Read Jeremy Mikolajczak’s review.

Kansas City artist and 1997 Charlotte Street Award Fellow Anne Lindberg has been selected by Art Omi to attend the three-week Art Omi International Artists Residency Program in Upstate New York, July 2009. Lindberg is the fifth Kansas City based artist selected to attend Art Omi through a partnership between Charlotte Street Foundation and Art Omi launched in 2004. Through this partnership, one CSF Visual Artist Award Fellow per year is awarded a slot at the prestigious three-week residency program, where they work alongside other selected artists from around the world, and gain access to prominent visiting critics, curators, gallerists, and artists. This year’s critic-in-residence, on hand to lead discussions and make one-on-one studio visits, is Frances Richard, a critic and writer for ArtForum Magazine. Read about Art Omi’s 2009 selected artists.

Read the full press release.

Four Kansas City artists – Jorge Garcia Almodovar, Mike Hill, Beniah Leuschke, and Adolfo Martinez – were selected by a panel of local and national curators to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each this year. Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 65 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Awards, with a total of $392,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to the artists over eleven years. An exhibition of the work of the 2008 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Fellows opens at the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College opens November 21, 2008, 6-9pm, and runs through February 1, 2009.  Read the full press release.   Read Alice Thorson’s review in the KC Star.  Read Dana Self’s review in The Pitch.

A multi-disciplinary panel of performing arts professionals selected the first recipients of Charlotte Street’s new Awards to Generative Performing Artists earlier this year. Receiving unrestricted cash grants of $5000 each, the 2008 Fellows are choreographer/dancer DeeAnna Hiett; playwright/producer/director/actor Ron Megee; and composer/musician Mark Southerland. A celebration of the Fellows’ work, including live performances, is set for Friday, November 14, 8pm, at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre Copaken Stage, 1 H&R Block Way, in downtown Kansas City. This event is free and open to the public.

Envisioned as an annual program, these Awards intend to recognize outstanding, innovative performing artists in the fields of dance, theater, music, experimental music performance, theater/performance art, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions thereof. Fellows will be generative artists, meaning that they are actively creating new work in their fields – i.e. they are composers, playwrights, choreographers – in addition to very often being performers as well. As with CSF’s Awards to Visual Artists, these new Awards for Generative Performing Artists seek to support the continued creative and professional development of the selected artists, provide the means for them to further focus on and develop their work, and increase exposure for their accomplishments.  Read the full press release.  

2000 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipient Peregrine Honig was selected to attend the Art Omi International Residency Program this summer. Through a partnership launched in 2005, one Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow annually is awarded a three-week residency at Art Omi, a highly respected residency program in Upstate New York. Artists go to Art Omi to work alongside other serious artists from around the world and to gain feedback from a renowned group of visiting artists, critics and curators who visit the program each year. The opportunity to live and work in peaceful surroundings yet interact with the contemporary art world produces a unique atmosphere of creativity and dialogue among artists coming from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Brooklyn. Honig will deliver a public lecture about her experience at Art Omi on Friday, October 17, 5:30pm at Urban Culture Project’s Paragraph gallery.

Check out the Art Omi website http://www.artomi.org